Parent Coaching Institute

Parent Coaching Institute www.ThePCI.org Founded by Gloria DeGaetano, The PCI originated the parent coaching profession in 2000 At PCI we say, Parent Well. Transform Our World.

www.ThePCI.org The Parent Coaching Institute, a training organization, is the originator of parent coaching, setting the highest standards for parent coaching professionals and making sure parents are in the capable hands, caring hearts, and creative minds. Founded in 2000 by Gloria DeGaetano, the institute expanded its reach internationally and formed a sister organization, Parent Coach International in 2012. Currently Parent Coach Certification® Training is available in 20 countries. PCI Certified Parent Coaches® who graduated from PCI have successfully completed a year-long, graduate-level program in order to receive their Parent Coach Certification®. teachers, counselors, social workers, retired educators, mental health professionals and parent educators are drown to the program because our standards are the highest in the parent coaching industry. The PCI uses a specific parent coaching model with a proven track record of successfully helping parents reduce their stress, engage in brain-based parenting strategies, while discovering more of their own strengths and their children's strengths as well. With a strength-based coaching model that emphasizes the functional ecology of parenting and brain-compatible parenting techniques, PCI Coaches have the most leading-edge concepts to help parents overcome the daily demands of parenting in our high tech, media/digital age. PCI coaches help parents thrive, children develop optimally and families flourish. What could be more important?

02/19/2026

When you study with PCI, you go through a positive change process yourself. The coaching ideas and model you learn are ones you also practice when you work with parents. Our program provides opportunities to stretch and grow, energizing you to apply your knowledge in new ways. PCI Certified Parent Coaches® emerge confident, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic — ready to build a thriving coaching practice.

02/19/2026

🚨 HAPPENING TODAY: Mark Zuckerberg takes the stand to answer for Meta's choice to prioritize profit over our kids' safety.

This trial is a reckoning for Mark Zuckerberg and his trillion-dollar company.

No more empty apologies. It's time for real action and accountability for the harm Meta platforms have caused to American families.

PCI Certified Parent Coaches® are supporting families in over 31 countries around the world.Across cultures, languages, ...
02/12/2026

PCI Certified Parent Coaches® are supporting families in over 31 countries around the world.

Across cultures, languages, and communities, the goal is the same. Helping parents support their children and teens to develop optimally.

This work reaches far beyond one home or one classroom. It’s a global movement toward thriving families.

https://www.thepci.org/findcoach/

02/10/2026

Sorting through old photos for her son’s wedding shower, Christi Hurd, PCI Certified Parent Coach®, found herself right back in those early years of parenting — the sweet moments… the exhaustion… and that quiet question so many parents carry: “Am I doing this right?”

She’s currently reading "Becoming the Parent You Like" by Tierney R. Boggs, one of her instructors at the Parent Coaching Institute. One line stopped her in her tracks:

“I’m most happy as a parent when I step down from the performance of parenting and accept myself as someone who’s learning as I go.”

What if parenting isn’t about being perfect… but about being present and willing to learn?

Try this small shift today:
Change the word perfect to good.

You’re growing right alongside your child — and that counts.

We are so moved by these words from PCI graduate Frances Tully. Our mission is to empower coaches to become the catalyst...
02/05/2026

We are so moved by these words from PCI graduate Frances Tully. Our mission is to empower coaches to become the catalysts parents need in today’s world.

"The PCI year-long training course was transformative for me, both personally and professionally. Its dense, rich, and thought-provoking curriculum guides you into becoming a conscious catalyst for your clients...Gloria is a brilliant and passionate leader, who created a masterful coaching process for helping parents navigate this extremely challenging technology driven society...I highly recommend this program.”— Frances Tully, Marblehead, MA

See more testimonials here:
https://www.thepci.org/training-program/student-grad-testimonials.html

Ira Ghosh, a current student in PCI’s Parent Coach Certification program, recently took the TEDx stage to explore how im...
02/03/2026

Ira Ghosh, a current student in PCI’s Parent Coach Certification program, recently took the TEDx stage to explore how implicit bias forms early in childhood — through culture, observation, and the unspoken messages kids absorb every day.

Drawing on global education work across 37 countries, Ira shares how psychological safety, curiosity, and conscious guidance can move families and communities from bias toward belonging.

We’re proud to see members of the PCI community leading conversations that shape not just families, but society.

Watch her TEDx talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1ENJiUpaV8

The Plum You're Going to Eat Next Summerdoesn't exist yet; its potentiallives inside a tree you'll never seein an orchar...
02/02/2026

The Plum You're Going to Eat Next Summer
doesn't exist yet; its potential
lives inside a tree you'll never see
in an orchard you'll never see, will be touched
by a certain number of water droplets
before it reaches you, by certain angles
of light, by a finite amount of bugs
and dust motes and hands
you'll never know. The plum you are
going to eat next summer will gather
sugar, gather mass, will harden
at its center so it can soften toward
your mouth. The plum
you're going to eat next
summer doesn't know
you exist. The plum you are
going to eat next summer
is growing just for you.
––Gayle Brandeis

Tantrums aren’t about defiance — they’re about overwhelmed nervous systems.This insight comes from PCI Certified Parent ...
01/29/2026

Tantrums aren’t about defiance — they’re about overwhelmed nervous systems.

This insight comes from PCI Certified Parent Coach® Julia Wilcox, who shares how a parent’s grounded presence is often the most powerful tool during moments of dysregulation.

Read more from Julia: https://www.thepci.org/articles/Wilcox_HandlingTantrums.htm

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